Disability and Mad Studies Reading Group: Pop Culture Representations of Disability

The Disability and Mad Studies Reading Group endeavors to cultivate an accessible social and intellectual disability community on campus for those with disabilities, developing Disability Studies scholarship, engaged in disability inclusion and accessibility work, and/or interested in learning more. Anyone is welcome to participate, including community members without affiliations to McMaster. To receive updates and meeting invitations (including links to the readings), email Aisha and Alise at cripgrad@mcmaster.ca to join our mailing list. Please get in touch if you would be interested in co/facilitating a future session!

Facilitator: Aisha Wilks, MA student in English & Cultural Studies
*Lunch provided*
RSVP: tinyurl.com/CripGrad

Readings:

• Queer Eye episode (season 4, episode 2) “Disabled, But Not Really” available on Netflix (and screened during our meeting)
• Dan Freeman’s Live Tweet of the Queer Eye episode “Disabled, But Not Really”
• Alex Haagaard & Liz Jackson’s Queer Eye Demonstrates How We Can Show Disability, But Fail to Represent It in Quartz
• Imani Barbarin (@Imani_Barbarin / CrutchesandSpice.com) article entitled “On Being Black and ‘Disabled But Not — Really'” at ReWire News
• Vilissa Thompson’s (@VilissaThompson) response on Twitter and subsequent article called “Some Disabled People Blasted Queer Eye. But Without Talking About Race, It Misses the Point” for Healthline